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I didn't bash anything or anyone Catholic. I simply potsed the news report showing that "most" catholics don't read the Bible for themselves and that the leadersship of the RCC recently told the "catholic faithful" that parts of the Bible were not true and could not be trusted.

1) You obviously don't know any Catholics because many of us do read the Bible. However, we recognize that Bible-reading is not the sum total of our faith. Either that or the Catholics you do know are very inactive and slack.

2) As I am sure you know, our Liturgy has 3 readings (one OT, one non-Gospel NT, one Gospel) a Psalm, and the Our Father.

3) I find your assertion that the Church instructed the faithful that the Bible is "not to be trusted" and "not true" to be highly specious at best. If I had to hazard a guess, the Church indicated that portions of the Bible are metaphorical or employ poetic license and may not be literally true. I want to say this has to do with the story of Creation. In any case, it does not mean that the bible should not be trusted or that it is not true (though that truth may be in a literal, historical sense).

You're correct. Many people want to believe that the earth and people have been around only 6000 years, give or take. Anything else they view as apostacy.

Men (and women) want to put God in their own 24 hour day- Julian calendar boxes. The Lord God is greater than anything we as humans could possibly understand. We are nothing, apart from Christ, we are damned.

I find your assertion that the Church instructed the faithful that the Bible is "not to be trusted" and "not true" to be highly specious at best.

Then you can write the Bishops in question and tell them they are dead wrong.